CVE ID:	CVE-2009-3556
Description:	A certain Red Hat configuration step for the qla2xxx driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, when N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) hardware is used, sets world-writable permissions for the (1) vport_create and (2) vport_delete files under /sys/class/scsi_host/, which allows local users to make arbitrary changes to SCSI host attributes by modifying these files.
Test IDs:	None available
Cross References:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3556 RHSA-2010:0046 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html RHSA-2010:0095 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html SUSE-SA:2010:019 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html [oss-security] 20100120 CVE-2009-3556 kernel: qla2xxx NPIV vport management pseudofiles are world writable http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/20/2 http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666 http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537177 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537177 kernel-qla2xxx-security-bypass(55809) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55809 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6744 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6744 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9738 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9738